The notion that souls can be reborn after death figures prominently in Jewish mysticism.

Martin Buber and Abraham Joshua Heschel stressed the human encounter with God.

After World War II, American Jews left the cities for the burgeoning suburbs.

In 1647, the Portuguese Inquisition in Brazil compelled Isaac de Castro to choose between his Judaism and being burned alive. De Castro courageously chose his faith and martyrdom.

Abe’s Deli in Scranton, Pennsylvania will always feel like home.

While many, if not most, Israelite or Hebrew adherents have not had a halachic conversion, it’s not so easy to dismiss them as “not real Jews.”

Human beings have devised many rules of three. Perhaps we are physically programmed to create these rules because our bodily ...

Three generations cook Sephardic recipes for Hanukkah

With very few exceptions, the story of American popular music in the last five decades is largely a story of ...

Watching the final outs of the seventh game of the World Series last month, I couldn’t help wondering whether the ...